Hamilton Field Officers Mess – Novato CA

City:
Novato, CA

Site Type:
Military and Public Safety

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Description

‘The officers mess… has a setting of live-oak trees and California foliage. Like most of the buildings at Hamilton Field it has concrete foundations and hollow-tile walls above grade covered with stucco. Its roofs are covered wiht mission tile. The lounge has two huge fireplaces, rough-plaster walls, and a wood ceiling supported on wood trusses.’ (PWA: $60,000)

P.W.A. Federal Project No. 496

Source notes

Short, C. W. and R. Stanley-Brown (1939) Public Buildings: Architecture Under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Location Info


500 Palm Dr
Novato, CA 94949
Marin County

Coordinates: 38.057806, -122.51858

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